i heard enough about bluesky from an IRL friend that i finally went to check it out and… sorry, but it’s got all the branding of a tech startup whose employees

i heard enough about bluesky from an IRL friend that i finally went to check it out and… sorry, but it’s got all the branding of a tech startup whose employees discuss “growth hacking” with a straight face. https://bsky.social https://bsky.social is just a giant splash screen where it’s impossible to learn anything more about the platform before signing up. there’s an invite system, yet simultaneously it’s supposed to be decentralized? Google around and you’ll find blueskyweb.xyz with an FAQ page which talks up the decentralization angle massively. search “how would one deploy a Bluesky instance” for an hour and eventually learn that the stack is split into like four different conceptual layers with meaningless acronym names and the parts that actually matter are closed source. so idk, until proven otherwise Bluesky is just a PR campaign promising everything to everyone and what they’ll actually deliver is a complete mystery. still, i wish they would bridge to Activity Pub so that i could peek inside without having to tie myself to it.